“We can’t keep following norms of decorum.”

“Some [voters] have suggested … what we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” 

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“Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public.”

“It’s like … the Roman coliseum. People just want more and more of this spectacle.” 

“What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and … a lot of times that’s coming from economically very secure white people.” 

What you just read are quotes from a Monday Axios piece on what Democratic lawmakers are hearing from their voters regarding what extremes need to be taken to resist President Donald Trump. And if this strategy sounds crazy, reckless, and potentially fatal, it’s because it is. 

But words are just that, right? Of course, no one would actually, for example, get themselves shot to draw attention to the Trump resistance. 

Well, think again. Just hours after that Axios piece went live, a gunman in tactical gear ambushed federal border patrol agents at an annex facility in McAllen, Texas. One officer was struck and rushed to the hospital, where he’s in stable condition and expected to survive. The gunman, whose motives are not yet known, was shot and killed. 

It’s not just Democrat voters who are thoughtlessly attacking federal agents for the crime of doing their jobs by apprehending and deporting violent criminals who entered the country illegally, but elected officials as well. Here’s a sampling from former Democratic vice presidential candidate and current Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who decided that using terminology reserved for the Nazis against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents was a consequence-free idea. 

“Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets,” Walz said at, of all places, a commencement speech at the University of Minnesota. “They’re in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons, no chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye, just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans, and disappeared.”

This person actually came close to being one heartbeat away from the presidency. Think about that. He uses the word “Gestapo” to compare ICE agents to Nazi state secret police under Hitler, and not a hint of condemnation came from the editorial boards of the New York Times or Washington Post. This gives such rhetoric tacit approval. 

It’s not just Walz spewing this garbage.

“It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye,” said former President Joe Biden just days before Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

“It’s on us to recognize the threat [Trump] poses,” said former Vice President Kamala Harris after being installed as the Democratic Party nominee without one vote from the public.

“Trump is destructive to our democracy and … he has to be eliminated,” said Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY). 

“Trump needs to be shot,” Delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands Stacey Plaskett said before correcting herself by saying she meant “stopped.” 

“They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump. And that’s a fact,” said Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson in 2015. 

“[Trump] is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen,” said former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

“This is America. This is not the Soviet Union. We’re not behind the Iron Curtain. This is not the 1930s. And every single [ICE agent], no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will, of course, be identified,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

Almost one year ago, the first of two assassination attempts was almost successful against Trump. In the second instance, the gunman, Ryan Routh, literally quoted Democratic lawmakers almost verbatim before his attempt outside of Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Florida.

“DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose,” Routh wrote on Facebook in 2024. 

“Make no mistake: democracy is on the ballot,” Biden said before dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. 

ICE agents are also being targeted at an alarming rate. According to the Department of Homeland Security, assaults against ICE officers and federal agents are up a whopping 690% compared to the same time last year. And not one Democrat has come out to say, “Let these men do their jobs. Enough is enough.” 

Instead, these are some lawmakers purposely getting arrested to drum up sympathy while making ICE look like the bad guys. The lowlight came last month when Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was handcuffed for storming a press conference being held by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Agents had no choice but to restrain Padilla and arrest him before letting him out of custody. 

Padilla, of course, could have simply asked to meet with Noem privately following her press conference, but that would require acting professionally as a sitting senator. Instead, they engaged in arrest pornography. Padilla knew he’d get this kind of treatment from publications such as the Los Angeles Times. 

“First they came for the immigrants, then they came for our Latino senator,” blared the headline in California’s most prominent paper. And, of course, the word “illegal” was purposely omitted before “immigrants” to imply ICE was actually seeking to deport those in the country legally. 

Across the country in New York, 33-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani runs on a platform that includes removing ICE from the city entirely.

“[Mamdani] will ensure our immigrant New Yorkers are protected by strengthening our sanctuary city apparatus: getting ICE out of all City facilities and ending any cooperation,” his platform reads. 

Again, “illegal” is left out here. And what does “ending any cooperation” mean, exactly? How will Mamdani get ICE out of all city facilities except by force, since no legal recourse can remove them? 

There is little hope that Democratic leaders will do the right thing and push back on their voters who no longer want decorum in favor of mob rule, the Roman coliseum, and blood on the streets instead. 

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